draw tight
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Helen Sung/Benny Green On two different new trio records, two jazz pianists in early middle age with fluent and streamlined styles draw tight lines around jazz from the 1940s to the ’60s.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011
On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
To-day she kept things going, and sang a lot, but nearly every time you looked at her you could see her lips draw tight, a frown cross her forehead, and her head shake.
From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene
Her heart ached as she saw the ashen pallor of his face and the skin beginning to draw tight and slick across the protruding cheek-bones of his once magnificent face.
From The One Woman by Dixon, Thomas
Astringe′, to bind together: to draw tight: hence to render constipated.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
